The works of Nas and West Cost rappers such as Ice Cube compliment the statement made by Tricia Rose. In the first part of the statement she speaks about "historical contextualization" and "aesthetic consideration". Historical considerations deals with the history of hip hop and its roles. During different time periods hip hop was affected by the cities, people, and even the government. This all ties in on how history has played a traumatic role in the development of hip hop. Aesthetic considerations deals with what is being done to make sure the work is done right. It is the type of drive that gives music artist the ability to create great music that others can relate to. The common aesthetics for hip hop are usually violence/crime, rebellion,
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In this first part Rose points out that you cannot naturalize aesthetics. Hip hops main audience is African Americans and since the common aesthetics of hip hop are violence/crime, rebellion, and resistance, people usually generalize and assume that all black people are this way. From the outside in African Americans are seen as gangsters that are violent, rebellious, made, resistant, and challenging police repression. Instead these rappers were trying to express their feelings about certain topics, instead of listening to the deeper meaning of the lyrics it was all just seen as violence. It could not be put to blame since not everyone could relate to the African American struggle. Ice-T discussed the focus of aesthetics in a Rolling Stone's article stating, "When rap came out of LA, what you heard initially was my voice yelling about South Central. People thought “That shit's crazy" and ignored it” (Kelly, 117). This is what people from the outside saw, they did not hear their voices all they heard was a call of violence and …show more content…
This is only focusing on sociohistorical circumstances. Only focusing on the history results to a misunderstanding of the background of hip hop and its development over time. With the history tied into hip hop Kelly states, "The criminal-justice system changed just when hip hop was born. Economic reconstructing resulting in massive unemployment has created criminals out of black youth" (Kelly, 118). This goes to show that the history of hip hop has had a made a full effect on the African American
In this first part Rose points out that you cannot naturalize aesthetics. Hip hops main audience is African Americans and since the common aesthetics of hip hop are violence/crime, rebellion, and resistance, people usually generalize and assume that all black people are this way. From the outside in African Americans are seen as gangsters that are violent, rebellious, made, resistant, and challenging police repression. Instead these rappers were trying to express their feelings about certain topics, instead of listening to the deeper meaning of the lyrics it was all just seen as violence. It could not be put to blame since not everyone could relate to the African American struggle. Ice-T discussed the focus of aesthetics in a Rolling Stone's article stating, "When rap came out of LA, what you heard initially was my voice yelling about South Central. People thought “That shit's crazy" and ignored it” (Kelly, 117). This is what people from the outside saw, they did not hear their voices all they heard was a call of violence and …show more content…
This is only focusing on sociohistorical circumstances. Only focusing on the history results to a misunderstanding of the background of hip hop and its development over time. With the history tied into hip hop Kelly states, "The criminal-justice system changed just when hip hop was born. Economic reconstructing resulting in massive unemployment has created criminals out of black youth" (Kelly, 118). This goes to show that the history of hip hop has had a made a full effect on the African American